أَلَم تَرَ في الطَريقِ إِلى كِيادِ

تَصيدُ البَطَّ بُؤسَ العالَمينا

Have you not seen along the road to Kyad

How fate ensnares the wretched of both worlds

أَلَم تَلمَح دُموعَ الناسِ تَجري

مِنَ البَلوى أَلَم تَسمَع أَنينا

Have you not glimpsed the tears of men flowing

From agony, have you not heard our groans

أَلَم تُخبِر بَني التاميزِ عَنّا

وَقَد بَعَثوكَ مَندوباً أَمينا

Have you not told the sons of Tamiz about us

When they sent you as an honest emissary

بِأَنّا قَد لَمَسنا الغَدرَ لَمساً

وَأَصبَحَ ظَنُّنا فيكُم يَقينا

That we have touched betrayal by the hand

And our suspicions of you have become certainty

كَشَفنا عَن نَواياكُم فَلَستُم

وَقَد بَرِحَ الخَفاءُ مُحايِدينا

We have uncovered your intentions so you are no longer

Concealed now that secrecy has departed from us

سَنُجمِعُ أَمرَنا وَتَرَونَ مِنّا

لَدى الجُلّى كِراماً صابِرينا

We will gather up our affair and you will see in us

At the decisive moment, patient noblemen

وَنَأخُذُ حَقَّنا رَغمَ العَوادي

تُطيفُ بِنا وَرَغمَ القاسِطينا

And we will take our right despite the enemies

Who conspire against us and despite the unjust

ضَرَبتُم حَولَ قادَتِنا نِطاقاً

مِنَ النيرانِ يُعيي الدارِعينا

You have set around our leaders a cordon

Of fires that exhaust the armored ones

عَلى رَغمِ المُروءَةِ قَد ظَفِرتُم

وَلَكِن بِالأُسودِ مُصَفَّدينا

Despite self-respect you have prevailed

But in shackles and chains